From Diesel To Renewable Energy, A Thousand Family in Teluk Harapan, Maratua Using Electricity With Affordable Solar Energy
Teluk harapan is a village in Maratua Island, a remote island in the east of Kalimantan Timur. In this remote island solar energy is normally the most cost-effective resource for light, radio, television, and charging mobile phones.
From last year, 2014, the trend in these regions for so-called “Home-solar Panel”. These very small systems have a small solar panel, a small battery and a very efficient LED lamp. The system is based on a very low consumption of electricity. Mostly, it spent for one night. However, this trend didn’t sufficient to fulfill of electrical consumption. In another way, peoples of Teluk Harapan accomplish it by generating electricity diesel especially to turn on TV, refrigerator, washing machine, etc. In one night, they could spend 5 liters of diesel which costs Rp 10.000/liter. One by one, people complaining that using diesel caused some problem such as: pollution, maintenance, and noise.
Photovoltaic is growing here continuously due to the development program from Kabupaten Berau in this year, also due to the low cost of solar panels. Finally, the government builds up a Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Surya/PLTS (solar power grid generator) to address above mentioned problem. They can generate electricity for 100 houses. As a rule, people of Teluk Harapan have to pay Rp 25.000 per month so that they could consume the electricy around 450 wH per month.
There are considerable changes. Diesel is expensive, costing a family perhaps Rp 1.500.000 a month. Now, they can save this money. Furthermore, through electric light one achieves more in education. Children who mostly work with their parent during day can study in the evening.
The electrification of remote island with this system is economical and therefore a real option. We are sure that in the next few years many people will get their electricity in this way.
created by: Epri Wahyu
Second Site-Visit SR&DT Batch 2 to Sumenep and Poteran Island
The second visit to Sumenep and Poteran island aimed to complete data needed to answer the problems posed from the first site visit in February 28th-29th and March 1st, 2015. The visit was completed in four days from May 28th-31st, 2015 to gather primary and secondary data.
Thursday [May 28th, 2015]
The first day of SR & DT Poteran site-visit was to visit Badan Metereologi dan Geofisika (BMG), Dinas Pengairan, and Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) in Sumenep Regency to obtain secondary data. Arriving in BMG at 09.00am, the team explained briefly the purpose in coming there which was to request data for wind velocity and length of solar exposure to assess the feasibility of establishing Wind Turbine and Solar Cell in Poteran island. The Wind Turbine and Solar Cell are power plans to supply electricity for water pumps and Moringa/seaweed processing machine in support of establishing Bio-certified Moringa and Seaweed Production. The team also needed tidal period and seawater current data, however those data are not available in BMG. BMG provides 8 data which are: temperature, rainfall, humidity, evaporation, air pressure, length of
The Second Day of SR&DT Batch 2
After the first day activities of SR & DT Batch 2 had completed, the team continued with another activities of the second day (27.02.2015). SR & DT Batch 2 started their activities with breakfast and the menu was one of the local food of Madura Island called campor, campor is a food with peanut sauce topped with soto. For the member who ate Campor at the first time they have been surprised by the taste of the food because campor has a unique taste but still tasty. After breakfast the next event was the official meeting with lectures, staff and students in Wiraraja University that is located in Sumenep. In this discussion, Mr.. Endry as the speaker and he presented about the activities of SR & DT in Poteran island. One of the points which explained was about the benefits of Moringa as a commodity that will be exported to Europe. The discussion began at 09:00 pm and ended 30
The First Day of SR&DT Batch 2 For Poteran Island
The first day for the team of SR & DT Batch 2 Poteran Island has been begun on Thursday, February 26th, 2015. Started from Surabaya at 13:30 pm by using two private cars and the team arrived at the University Wiraraja (UNIJA) at 17:45 pm. Wiraraja University is located in Sumenep-Madura Island and this university has 7 faculties and 10 departments, Wiraraja University also has more than 4000 students. After the team of SR & DT Batch 2 arrived at Wiraraja University, the team has been warmly welcomed by some of the students, staff and lectures from Wiraraja university. After the meeting and introduction time between these two educational institutions, team of SR&DT Batch 2 and lectures from University Wiraraja continued for dinner and choosed a location in the Central of Sumenep as a dining area.
Meeting and Training With SR & DT Batch 2
Meeting and Training with SR & DT Batch 2 was held in the BG Munaf room FTK - ITS on Monday, February 23rd, 2015. The event, which began in the morning, has been attended by the participants of the SR & DT Batch 2 and professors as part of SIDI team. The participants received training from professors who act as a speaker in various sessions and themes. For the first theme was Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship session discussed about how students can have an entepeneurship soul in the future. One important thing in this session was to know the personal character of ourselves, which can improve them to be a better person. In this session also spoke about the importance of finding “something new” through the brainstorming, where ideas can be found in various time that was considered appropriate by each individual. This idea should be developed into something real which will be useful for the development of the island, Maratua and Poteran Island.
After Entrepreneurship session, followed the next session which was “Project Management”. It discussed about how the SR & DT participants are able to manage a project that they will work in each island. In that
